DURHAM’S Jess Eddie and Richmond’s Zoe Lee teamed up to win two gold medals at last weekend’s British Rowing Championships.

Competing with Olympic and world women’s pair champions Helen Glover and Heather Stanning, the duo claimed victory in the women’s coxless fours in impressive style.

The quartet then linked up again 24 hours later to triumph in a women’s quad event that was cut short because of high winds at Holme Pierrepoint, near Nottingham.

“The fours race was a really good race because we executed exactly what we wanted to do,” said Stanning, after the composite crew took gold in 7:28.70 ahead of two teams from Leander.

Olympic champion Kat Copeland teamed up with Tees RC colleague Tina Stiller, who is from Yarm, to win bronze in the double sculls.

Copeland, who won Olympic gold in the lightweight double at London 2012, and Stiller, who is a heavyweight, finished behind an Imperial College London crew of New Zealand world single sculls champion Emma Twigg and Mel Wilson.

“It was alright,” said Copeland. “We haven’t been training together that long but I actually think we did better than last year.

“I find it really useful because I'm obviously a lightweight and Tina's a heavyweight, so we tend to row differently and can learn things from each other.”

Stiller was proud to win a medal for Tees, adding: "It benefits our club if we do really well, it gets Tees on the map. Not a lot of people had heard about us until Kat won her Olympic medal.”

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SOPHIE TAYLOR will be part of a select British team that will compete in the World Short-Course Swimming Championships in Doha in December.

The Harrogate teenager, who won a 100m breaststroke gold medal at this summer’s Commonwealth Games, is one of 12 swimmers chosen for the short-course championships, which begin on December 3.

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Commonwealth and European champions Jazz Carlin, Fran Halsall and Adam Peaty have also been selected, as well as defending world champion Hannah Miley.

“These Short-Course World Championships are not a key stage meet for us, but they are still very important in terms of the development of our athletes and their racing strategies,” said British Swimming head coach Bill Furniss. “It’s a small team, but one which is full of some of our leading performers from what has been a successful year.”